Few things concern parents more than the thought that a predator may have set his sights on their children. Few fears terrify parents more than that they may fail to protect their children from those who would seek to do them harm. Few things break a parent’s heart like learning that their child has been exposed to something they should not have seen or to something they should not have experienced. In this age, and every age, parents need to know how to recognize and respond to sexual danger.

This is the subject of a new book by Beth Robinson and Latayne Scott (with Robinson as the one who brings her expertise to bear as a licensed professional counselor and a specialist in counseling children through the trauma of sexual abuse). Protecting Your Children From Predators attempts to arm parents with a knowledge of how predators think and operate and with a plan to defeat them. Acknowledging the massive scope of abuse in society around and even within the church, Robinson says, “it doesn’t have to be this way. The past is not the future. This can stop now, and it can stop with the active involvement of


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